Internship--Entry 7

Things are really rolling now. My first videoconference will be held Monday, November 24th. Last week was all about finalizing details...my internship supervisor met with me the first time to first rearrange the room to accept the portable Tandberg cart. We had to call Video Systems (the vendor for Tandberg) to ask about why our internal camera view wasn’t working and why we weren’t able to connect to sites outside of the district. The suggested changing the input view on the equipment, and it worked!. We then tried test calling the Baseball Hall of Fame but had problems. After talking to our network technician, we realized we needed a public IP address (the reason we weren’t able to call out). A cell phone here was a life saver because all these calls were done in a classroom while trying to get the equipment to work. By the time all this was done, we needed to reschedule our test call, so today, we called them again around 10:15. It worked! What a relief! The Hall of Fame operator had suggestions for the room layout, and I know we're ready.

The teacher whose class will benefit from the videoconference prepared the class today. We showed them a scene from the movie Annie so they could see how radio programs used sound effects. The students then read through a script they'll use Monday during the conference. Here's a link to the program we're planning. http://education.baseballhalloffame.org/experience/thematic_units/comm_arts.html

I'll post again Monday evening to describe how the conference went!